Actually for me, the clunking of the float in an
almost-empty tank serves as an audible backup gas
gauge :-)
It is very possible that handing the sander unit
during removal and reinstallation was the straw that
broke the camel's back, and it is truly busted inside
the electrical part.
Doug
--- Jim Muller <jimmuller@rcn.com> wrote:
> Sometimes the low-tech solution is the right one.
>
> I took the fule sender out of the Spitfire's tank
> the other day. My
> mirror wouldn't fit into the hole but from what I
> could see and from
> poking around inside with a wire I concluded there
> was nothing loose
> in the tank. Can't say I like sticking my face into
> an open tank of
> highly combustible fluid, but I did wait for a damp,
> overcast day to
> do this so as to avoid ESD that might send me to
> kingdom-come. I
> observed that the float has a bit of gas in it,
> which explains why
> the guage has been reading low. I also observed
> that a rubber
> grommet/seal-like loop thingy was dangling loose
> from the arm. There
> appeared to be nothing for it to seal. So I guessed
> that it was a
> bumper-stop to prevent the float from banging, and
> that it should
> have been stretched around the center of the float.
> So I moved it
> there, then later looked it up in a catalogue to
> find pictures which
> show the float with a collar around the center.
> Aha!
>
> Today's drive to work had no clunking!
>
> Of course, the guage didn't work at all today.
> Maybe when I put the
> sender back in I got it stuck on the pickup tube.
> Or maybe the
> internals decided to break. I believe it is wired
> correctly, but
> (though I don't have a diagram in front of me just
> now) I don't think
> it should make any difference.
>
> So, is there any collective experience to indicate
> that the sender
> could just go bad? I could drain and seal the
> float, but if the non-
> functional guage is not my re-assembly error then
> perhaps I should
> just order a new sender.
>
> [All missppellinnggs in this note are intentional.
> I just can't
> tpye.]
>
> Jim Muller
> jimmuller@rcn.com
>
>
>
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